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She smiles. She says his name.
Ender Wiggin, my precious.
Sometimes he was thinking, trying to struggle with the problems that still loomed over him: the fleet coming against them, Jane’s shutoff date, the Descolada’s constant efforts to destroy the humans of Lusitania, Warmaker’s plan to spread the Descolada throughout the galaxy, and the grim situation within the city, now that the Hive Queen kept constant watch over the fence and their grim penance had them all tearing at the walls of their own houses.
And sometimes his mind was almost devoid of thought, as he stood or sat or lay in the grass, too numb to weep, her face passing through his memory, his lips and tongue and teeth forming her name, pleading with her silently, knowing that even if he made a sound, even if he shouted, even if he could make her hear his voice, she wouldn’t answer him.
Novinha.
Reklam
‘I’m sorry,’ said Jane softly.
‘Yes,’ he said.
‘When I’m gone,’ she said, ‘maybe Novinha will come back to you.’
‘You won’t be gone if I can help it,’ he said.
‘But you can’t. They’re going to shut me down in a couple of months.’
‘Shut up,’ he said.
Here, though, in this clearing in the forest, their feet ankle-deep in ash, the brothers and wives who kept vigil over their new mothertree had no belief in Warmaker’s doctrine.
They who knew human beings best of all even chose to have humans present as witnesses and helpers in their attempt to be reborn.
‘Because,’ said Planter, who was now the spokesman for the surviving brothers, ‘we know that not all humans are alike, just as not all pequeninos are alike. Christ lives in some of you, and not in others. We are not all like Warmaker’s forest, and you are not all murderers, either.’ So it was that Planter held hands with Miro and Valentine on the morning,
'No Val, she doesnt know how to lie.' ...
‘Human begged the Hive Queen to help them, but she said she couldn’t kill humans,’ said Miro. ‘Then Jane saw the fire from the satellites in the sky, and told Andrew Wiggin. He spoke to the Hive Queen and told her what to do. That she wouldn’t have to kill anybody.’
But he could still be heard. ‘The forest that killed Quim is far away from here, and Warmaker still stands untouched. We haven’t done justice here tonight. We’ve done murder and massacre.’
‘Piggies are Piggies!’
‘Are they? Would you like that if it went the other way?’
Grego took a few steps toward one of the men who looked tired and unwilling to go on, and spoke directly to him, while pointing at the mob’s spokesman. ‘You! Would you like to be punished for what he did?’
‘No,’ muttered the man.
‘If he killed someone, would you think it was right for somebody to come to your house and slaughter your wife and children for it?’
Several voices now. ‘No.’
‘Why not? Humans are humans, aren’t we?’
Reklam